Hours – 31.5 This was another good lesson, although unexpected. I was scheduled to practice solo at the airport on Sunday, but Donna called with an opening with Dan for Saturday afternoon. Apparently, all his morning lessons cancelled. I took advantage of the situation for a nice cross country up to Great Barrington (GBR). Everything […]

Hours – 29.8 You may have noticed that I took out the “Lesson Number” in the title of this post. I mean really, who cares what number lesson it is anyway? Also, it was making the title too long. I had a “practice” scheduled for 4:30 today, but the weather was marginal, so I took […]

Hours – 28.5 This was a great lesson. I wanted to get in there to ease my concerns about a few things. Remember what happened during my last lesson? Well, this time I wanted to get in some landings, go-arounds and some no flap landings. Yigal was already booked up, so I went up for […]

If you are like me, you tend to forget things. Probably at the most inopportune times. Remember way back, when you were going to elementary school, your teacher would use examples to help you remember things? Here is a good one to remember the planet names: My: Mercury Very: Venus Educated: Earth Mother: Mars Just: […]

Hours – 27.6 I was sick last weekend, so I had to cancel my lesson. Yigal was sick today, so he only stayed in the airplane for a short while. Interesting lesson, I should say. The plan was to get me up there to get my head going again. I felt so guilty about missing […]

Hours – 26 This was a pretty good lesson. We got a nice start because the airplane was already cleaned off after Wednesday’s snow storm. Also, it wasn’t bitter cold, like the last few lessons. I really wanted to get up to Columbia County Airport (1B1) in Hudson, NY. I have had the navigation log […]

Hours – 24.3 Since I have been pretty busy with VOR navigation, airspace and communications practice, I thought I was getting a little rusty with my landings, so I went in today to brush up. Yigal wasn’t available today, but Dan, another instructor was. I wanted to go up solo, but the wind was too […]

Hours – 23.2 Another cold day for a lesson. This one was last Saturday morning. We used up some time cleaning the snow off the plane, but still got a good 1.2 hours in. I wanted to go up to 1B1, but that wasn’t going to happen…not enough time. I just can’t seem to get […]

I really wasn’t looking forward to this morning’s flight lesson. It was about 7 degrees outside…the coldest day of the year so far. As I lay there in my warm bed, I could only imagine what my 15 minute pre-flight was going to be like. There I was, fingertips twanging with pain, checking over the […]

Hours – 22 This Sunday, I decided that it would be nice to take a cruise to Waterbury/Oxford Airport (OXC) in Connecticut. We would depart from MGJ, fly to the Kingston VOR station in Poughkeepsie and from there, head straight to OXC. The round trip would take about 1 1/2 hours. We took off and […]